Welcome to Year 1

 

 

 

Teachers: Miss Bellerby and Mr Smith

 

Teaching Assistants:

Miss Dott and  Mrs Steel

 

 

Spring Term

Our topic this term is: Toy Story

 

Key concepts being taught this term:

 

Literacy  

Reading

Decoding, blending and grapheme recognition.

Making predictions in response to text and relate these to personal experiences. 

Writing

Using capital letters and full stops to demarcate sentences.

Joining words and clauses using the conjunction 'and'.

Using cursive writing for lower case letters and forming capital letters.

Saying sentences out loud in preparation for writing.

Re-read own writing out loud.

 

Numeracy

Place Value

One more and one less within 100.

Number recognition to 100.

The Four Operations

Reinforcing addition and subtraction, 

Introduction of counting in 2s, 5s and 10s.

Fractions

Finding a half of a set of objects and shapes. 

Geometry

Recognising and naming 2D and 3D shapes.

Measurement

Time, learning the days of the week and months of the year.

 

Science 

Various properties of materials.

Plants

Computing

e-safety

Coding

Art

Drawing skills - line, tone and texture

Painting skills - colour mixing

Famous Artists - Hockney

Music

Listening to music to discuss changes in pulse and rhythm.

Sing melodies tunefully.

Changing tempo and dynamics

Technology

Creating sliders and levers to make moving story characters

Geography

Talking about our environments as well as physical and human features.

History

Comparing old and new toys

P.E and Games

Gymnastics and Athletics

R.E. and PSHCE

Christian celebrations and keeping safe

 

P.E. is on Monday and Tuesday. Please ensure that NO earrings are worn on these days.
Homework is given out on Thursday and is due in on Tuesday.

          

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